ArticleGlobal health promotion2022
Psychological response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: main stressors and assets.
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- Was the COVID-19 Pandemic a Triggering Factor for PTSD in Adults? Results From A Systematic Review.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2025Pooled it
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- Insight into Post-Pandemic Needs in Healthcare and Well-Being Among Francophone Families in the Canadian Prairies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Sensitivity to change of the COVID-19 anxiety syndrome scale among Canadian dentists.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Anxiety symptoms and coping strategies used by older adults during COVID-19: A national e-study of linkages among and between them.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- Average or extraordinary? A tale of two studied samples' anxiety related recovery work after COVID-19.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Pour une défense collective face à la fatigue pandémique: l'urgence de renforcer les facteurs protecteurs.Global health promotion · 2024Article
- Mentally healthy living after pandemic social distancing: a study of older Canadians reveals helpful anxiety reduction strategies.Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society · 2024Article
- Anxiety among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2022Article
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- The Psychometric Properties of the French-Canadian Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics-6 Scale for Measuring the Viral Anxiety of the General Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- One Virus, Four Continents, Eight Countries: An Interdisciplinary and International Study on the Psychosocial Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic among Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe COVID-19 crisis has unique features that increase the sense of fear, and comes with additional stressors (e.g., confusion, discrimination, quarantine), which can lead to adverse psychological responses. There is however limited understanding of differences between sociocultural contexts in psychological response to pandemics and other disasters.
objectiveTo examine how Canadians in different provinces, and with different governance modes and sociocultural contexts, understand and react to the COVID-19 pandemic.
methodsA web-based survey was conducted from April 8-11, 2020, among a representative sample of 600 Canadian adults from two different contexts (
resultsProbable PTSD and GAD were observed in 25.5% and 25.4% of the respondents, respectively. These proportions were significantly lower in Quebec than elsewhere in Canada. Perceiving a high level of threat and being a victim of stigma were positively associated with probable PTSD and GAD (but not quarantine/isolation and financial losses). A high level of trust in authorities was the only asset associated with a lower risk of PTSD or GAD. Interestingly, this asset was more frequently reported in Quebec than elsewhere in Canada.
conclusionThe COVID-19 pandemic represents a unique opportunity to evaluate the psychosocial impacts on various sociocultural groups and contexts, providing important lessons that could help respond to future disasters.
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